雲（くも）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: cloud
Example sentences
- 青い空に白い雲が浮かんでいる。 — White clouds are floating in the blue sky.
- 雲が多くて、太陽が見えない。 — It's so cloudy that you can't see the sun.
Idioms & proverbs containing “雲”
- 雲泥の差 (うんでいのさ) — wide difference; a world of difference
- 雲散霧消 (うんさんむしょう) — vanishing like mist
- 行雲流水 (こううんりゅうすい) — (metaphorically) floating with the tide
- 暗雲低迷 (あんうんていめい) — gathering dark clouds; being under the shadow of
- 雲煙万里 (うんえんばんり) — limitless expanse of clouds and smoke
- 雲泥万里 (うんでいばんり) — being poles apart; (there being) all the difference in the world
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